My parents are consuming more red media. This seems to happen in immigrant non-english circles.
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2025
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Fascist Propaganda plays super hard on the fears and nagging doubts that come with being an immigrant. The fears of deportation, imprisonment, or worse, not fitting in. The fear that everything is for nothing because someone is always poised to steal it out from under you. The fear that you are simply too weak to make it in the world, that there are things you don't understand and never will.
It's truly insidious.
ITT: Really depressing stories of society's decline into ChristoFascist mania and delusion.
What's the cause for it? Media manipulation can't be the only one.
The ultimate cause is an economic system which is failing to meet the needs of the majority (combined with media run by, and for the minority who the economic system does serve.)
The media's real purpose at this point is to distract the majority from the real issues, and deflect any movement towards a real solution.
Extreme inequality, easy scapegoat, control of virtually most large media by a few oligarchs, algorithms, lack of education on recognising desinformation... they also think they're part of the in-group rather than realising they will never be considered 'one of them' by the oligarchs.
The one answer is to cut off all hateful news from them, by any means possible.
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I cut my Mom off. Dad was pretty deep in it too, he'd voted for Regan and Nixon, but he died before I couldn't take it anymore.
Ignore them and tell them trump is an idiot if you do talk to them and they bring it up. Watch them freak out.
Sorry, the brainwashing was too successful. You wont save them. They domt care that he raped children. They wont change their minds.
I don't keep in contact with my family, but I'd have no problem telling trump supporters that they're dumbasses straight to their faces.
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Not great.
Are they twits? A twit is someone who cant process more than 512 characters at once.
I deal with it pretty easily, I donβt have contact with them lol.
Sorry for your loss